1 in 4 kids hasn't heard of records; TECHNOLOGY.Byline: By RUKI SAYID AS many as one in four youngsters have never heard of record players, a study claims. But then 15 per cent of all age groups cannot remember the Walkman and 92 per cent cannot remember a telephone with a dial on it. In contrast, today's younger generation cannot live without the internet or a washing machine. Other essentials highlighted in the poll by retailer Comet comet [Gr.,=longhaired], a small celestial body consisting mostly of dust and gases that moves in an elongated elliptical or nearly parabolic orbit around the sun. Comets visible from the earth can be seen for periods ranging from a few days to several months. to mark its 75th anniversary include the TV, the home PC, the mobile phone and the dishwasher. Joining the record player as a distant memory are the video, cassette A removable magnetic tape storage module that contains supply and takeup reels (hubs) in the same housing. Most audio tapes and videotapes use cassettes as well as backup tape technologies such as DAT, 8mm and Magstar MP (see below). tape, teas made, black and white TV and eight-track. Amazingly, the survey of 1,000 adults even showed 22 per cent of people could not remember the minidisc A compact digital audio disc from Sony that comes in read-only and rewritable versions. Introduced in late 1993, the MiniDisc has been most popular in Japan. The read-only 2.5" disc stores 140MB compared to 650MB on a CD, but holds the same 74 minutes worth of music due to Sony's Adaptive . A Comet spokesman said: "For every iPod and flat screen TV which is now essential to so many, there is a sodastream or betamax that has become as quickly forgotten." CAPTION(S): RELIC A record player |
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